Subway-slash survivor Yael Leopold was riding high yesterday when Mayor Bloomberg took time after his State of the City speech to give the spirited student a hero’s welcome at City Hall.

Leopold, who was viciously slashed by a hooded stranger at the nearby Chambers Street station on Jan. 11 while visiting the city, told the Post in an exclusive interview on Sunday that she would love to meet Bloomberg.

Yesterday, the Massachusetts college student’s wish came true.

“[The mayor] told me how sorry he was about what happened and how proud he is that I came back,” Leopold said. “I told him it could have happened anywhere.”

Bloomberg gave Leopold a Tiffany’s leather box with the City Hall seal. Leopold, in turn, brought the mayor honey from a farm in her hometown, Amherst.

Leopold is moving to New York next fall to teach underprivileged kids.

“[Bloomberg] said how tough it can be to teach in the inner cities but that it’s a wonderful time to be a teacher in New York City,” Leopold said.

Leopold was in New York to visit surgeons today who will check up on 60 stitches recently removed from her head, face and left hand.